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by mtraven 7y ago
Archive.org to the rescue https://web.archive.org/web/20190306154203/http://www.gnosis...
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by mtraven 7y ago
This hits the nail on the head. Alexander has a horror of power struggles and wants to believe they can all be rplaced with debate, but that simply doesn't work. He addresses this somewhat meta-level issue in his posts on Conflict vs.
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by mtraven 7y ago
I'm in general an admirer of Bateson (and Stewart Brand), but the Double Bind theory is crap and not taken seriously any more. Schizophrenia is an organic brain disease with genetic and probably other material causes; it's not cau
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Marvin Minsky on Education (with commentary by Alan Kay and others)(mitpress.mit.edu)
3 points by mtraven 8y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 8y ago
There hasn't been much written on the Lisp Machines that I know of. Alan Kay's History of Smalltalk might be a good place to start, the LispM owed a lot to earlier work done at PARC: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHist
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by mtraven 8y ago
I founded the mailing list the book was based on. These days I say, Unix went from being the worst operating system available, to being the best operating system available, without getting appreciably better. (which may not be entirely accu
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by mtraven 8y ago
Mindstorms is not about technology, it is about a particular approach to learning (constructionism) that happens to mesh very well with interactive computation. See http://namodemello.com.br/pdf/tendencias/situatin
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by mtraven 8y ago
The article doesn't mention this, but after some poking around it appears that the interactive demo is written in Morphic, the Smalltalk successor that Alan Kay and colleagues have been working on for the last couple of decades.
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by mtraven 9y ago
I invite all the Fox News viewers and others who take this BS seriously to move out of this hellhole and go to states with a higher quality of life rank such as Mississippi (#6) or Arkansas (#7), and send us a postcard so we can be jealous.
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by mtraven 9y ago
A survey on a self-selected group is kind of worthless. Eg, their results show a plurality of libertarians, which may be the case in reality but is much more likely to be an effect of libertarians being more likely to take the time to fill
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by mtraven 9y ago
Maybe secret to thenselves, but making the mark think he's in on the game is central to con artist technique.
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by mtraven 9y ago
Nice title, although I don't think the proposed solution (formal proof methods) is the answer. My own view is that building software is more of a design process than an engineering process, for the simple reason that software rarely ha
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Biomedicine Needs an Air Traffic Control System(collabrx.com)
2 points by mtraven 9y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 10y ago
In Clojure it's #(+ 2 %), pretty compact if cryptic. Actually no reason you couldn't make a reader macro in CL to look similar.
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by mtraven 10y ago
Somebody awhile back pointed out that Slack the app is about the most anti-Slack thing ever produced.
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by mtraven 11y ago
Well, they mostly support research designed to prevent harmful AI, which is important but hardly the only or best approach to AI research.
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by mtraven 11y ago
Some commentary: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2015/06/moldbuggery.html The first link there offers a theory of how nerd culture interacts (or tries to avoid interacting) with politics to produce things like
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by mtraven 11y ago
It's pretty funny to see Freud being trashed in a Marvin Minsky thread: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118555927.ch1...
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by mtraven 12y ago
Try the BOOC: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-models
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by mtraven 13y ago
I think you are homing in on a key philosophical difference between me and LessWrongsters. Don't really have time to get into it now, except to say that it is kind of arrogant to think you can design or think about superintelligences w
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by mtraven 13y ago
Fixed in post, thanks (and insert some juvenile snark about how-are-you-gonna-make-a-superintelligence-when-you-can't-even-keep-your-links-from-rotting? here).
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by mtraven 13y ago
The fact that it hasn't happened yet is good evidence that it isn't as easy as all that. Also, evolution optimizes for survival and reproduction, not intelligence. While it may be possible to design an artificial evolutionary syst
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by mtraven 13y ago
Indeed, that is a nice and concise way of putting it.
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by mtraven 13y ago
OP here, nonplussed that his obscure blog suddenly is near the top of Hacker News. First, I don't think that corporations are nothing but parasites, and said as much in the article. I did say that finance was parasitical. That was prob
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by mtraven 13y ago
Some blogspot blogs are down as well.
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by mtraven 13y ago
CLOS
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by mtraven 13y ago
As a Lisp hacker, I am somewhat stunned to learn that the world suffers from too much Lisp philosophy and that Lisp is unmathematical. Not to mention that Eric Raymond is a spokesman for Lisp. Actually there is a somewhat valid and interest
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RSA paid off by the NSA to keep security weak.(gizmodo.com)
3 points by mtraven 13y ago|1 comments
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by mtraven 13y ago
You aren't that old, son: http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
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by mtraven 13y ago
Yes good modularity is the essence of what I was calling good design. The point was that Lisp has better tools for achieving good modularity.

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